I think the means are justified in this case because there is no harm done to the Kurdish community. The operation was not masqueraded as a medical test, so at worst Kurds in Canada will avoid free samples and surveys.
The other commenter also mentions that there was a reason for the racial profiling (the semen in the girl’s body was of Kurdish origin). So I think the police’s operation was justified as an appropriate use of their available means.
Because the police definitely 100% for sure deleted all the genetic data for the 149 innocent people and definitely didn’t just add it to a million government databases
I am not saying this move was worth it or not. I actually don’t know about that. But if you have the DNA of one person you also have on average half the DNA of their siblings, children etc. and so on. Don’t let the number fool you into thinking that there aren’t more potential victims of this overreach.
Maybe, but some actions the police takes because there is no alternative will do that. Wiretaps, false arrests, dna testing, infiltration etc all erode public trust but it can’t be helped sometimes.
I don’t know how a rape case like this can be solved without DNA testing. Maybe if there were surveillance cameras everywhere, the criminal would’ve been caught in one of them, but then we’d have the issue of a massive surveillance - capitalist- state.
Suspects in such cases have been successfully identified long before DNA testing became a thing right. Police can establish relationships, interview people, and so on. The DNA testing should be the last step of confirmation once there’s sufficient evidence that points to likely suspects.
The ends do not justify the means here. There are procedures police can follow to solve murder cases that don’t involve racial profiling.
I think the means are justified in this case because there is no harm done to the Kurdish community. The operation was not masqueraded as a medical test, so at worst Kurds in Canada will avoid free samples and surveys.
The other commenter also mentions that there was a reason for the racial profiling (the semen in the girl’s body was of Kurdish origin). So I think the police’s operation was justified as an appropriate use of their available means.
Because the police definitely 100% for sure deleted all the genetic data for the 149 innocent people and definitely didn’t just add it to a million government databases
I’m not sure about no harm done. The police now have the complete DNA of an entire minority neighborhood.
This is a disadvantage of the operation, I agree. But 150 people are hardly a neighborhood.
I am not saying this move was worth it or not. I actually don’t know about that. But if you have the DNA of one person you also have on average half the DNA of their siblings, children etc. and so on. Don’t let the number fool you into thinking that there aren’t more potential victims of this overreach.
The harm is done by the precedent this creates, and such action erodes public trust.
Maybe, but some actions the police takes because there is no alternative will do that. Wiretaps, false arrests, dna testing, infiltration etc all erode public trust but it can’t be helped sometimes.
It hasn’t been demonstrated that there was no alternative here.
I don’t know how a rape case like this can be solved without DNA testing. Maybe if there were surveillance cameras everywhere, the criminal would’ve been caught in one of them, but then we’d have the issue of a massive surveillance - capitalist- state.
Suspects in such cases have been successfully identified long before DNA testing became a thing right. Police can establish relationships, interview people, and so on. The DNA testing should be the last step of confirmation once there’s sufficient evidence that points to likely suspects.